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Informing and Empowering Ohio’s Voters with Disabilities. The Ohio Candidate Forum on Disability Issues will provide a format for the candidates for Ohio Governor and U.S. Senate to inform the disability community about their positions on disability-related issues/policy. Engagement with our elected officials

Editor’s note: This report includes graphic and disturbing descriptions of sexual assault. In the sex education class for adults with intellectual disabilities, the material is not watered down. The dozen women and men in a large room full of windows and light in Casco, Maine, take on complex issues, such as

From Outside Magazine Stop Faking Service Dogs Loving your pet too much is putting people with real disabilities at risk Here in famously pet-friendly Los Angeles, I encounter dogs that are blatantly not service animals on a daily basis. Recently, during a morning visit to my local café, I laughed when a woman

For Immediate Release Paul Jarvis, Liaison Officer Friday, July 27, 2017 Phone: (614) 644-5545 Transportation Study Identifies Challenges for People with Disabilities (COLUMBUS) – More than half of the people with disabilities responding to a statewide transportation survey indicated that they had to

You Don’t Really Need to Use the R-Word Often, when asked not to use the R-word, defensive speakers will reply, “You can’t say anything these days!” But people, that’s just a failure of imagination. Many, many, manysubstitutes for that offensive slur against individuals

Born in South Africa in 1975, Martin Pistorius suddenly began to succumb to a mysterious illness when he was 12. After going home from school with a sore throat one day, he stopped eating, started sleeping almost constantly, and stopped communicating. He gradually began to lose control of his body. He was treated

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed Lex Frieden to serve in his administration as director of the newly created National Council on the Handicapped, now called the National Council on Disability. In 1986, Frieden and the council

My children and I just finished reading a new book titled, “My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Martin Luther King III. It’s a warm, intimate biography that explains a turning point in American history from the perspective of a child. At the heart of the book are the lessons that Dr. King modeled for us in

No one addresses the issue of social isolation better than Al Condeluci. The topic is a matter of life and death for many people with disabilities. The Center for Disability Empowerment remains committed to ending this isolation by providing support and resources so that people with disabilities can be